By Kathleen Oropeza | Originally Published at The Edvocate October 23, 2014 | Graphic; Wrath of Testing Robert Rendo Florida politicians, Governor Scott and his appointed Board of Education expect every parent to rely on blind faith and believe that their child’s test score is true. Our [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. October 23, 2014 | Rashad McCants won a title for UNC while skating through sham classes. (AP/Eric Gay) Writing about the newly released investigation of academic fraud at the University of North Carolina, Barry Petchesky [...]
By Paul Thomas, Ed.D | Originally Published at TruthOut. October 22, 2014 | Image by Camille at Flickr Over the past two seasons, the National Football League (NFL) has sparked public debate and even outrage over several social issues related to violence: bullying, domestic violence and child [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. October 17, 2014 at 7:49 am | Illustration Credit; The Blind Elephant Collective Jessica Tobin Sometimes when you get enough people beating on the outside of a building, those sitting comfortably on the inside start to feel [...]
By Jennifer Keys Adair | Originally Published at Huffington Post. October 15, 2014 12:16 pm EDT Updated: December 15, 2014 5:59 am EST In the aftermath of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shooting and killing Michael Brown, I have been thinking about what young children are picking [...]
By Ron Lester Whyte | Originally Published at Black Girl Dangerous. October 14, 2014 anti racism by zzalde What do the deaths of Aiyana Jones, Trayvon Martin, Andy Lopez, and Michael Brown, the 2012 Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, and the continued exploitation and occupation of Native lands [...]
The moments of protest and frenzied media coverage that followed the deaths of Michael Brown, Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and too many others always bring me to the same thought: We have a problem with how we talk about the lives of young [...]
Let me say right off the bat it's not my intention to blame parents for actively creating college rape culture. Rather, this post is meant as an appeal to parents of small children -- children who will all too soon be college age -- to [...]
By Heather Ann Thompson | Originally Published at Huffington Post. October 6, 2014 5:59 am EDT | Juvenile Life Without Parole Photographic Credit; American Civil Liberties Union If 11-year-old Jordan Brown had yet had the opportunity in school to learn about the United Nations, it probably wouldn't [...]
